BBC World were late in breaking the story to Antz, it was around 2040GMT when i first heard of this on Sky News, then I flicked to BBC World and it was WBR and on CNN we saw the coverage of this.
At the end of WBR on World Dharshini broke the news (very professionaly might I add) she gave us a quick brief of what the situation is and to stay with World for more at the top of the hour. And ever since now on BBC World its been all about this.
I can't understand why the BBC don't just show CBC live. When I was in Canada CBC showed endless amounts of BBC reports on their 6pm news on their main channel, and show the world news on their news channel at the same time. Surely the BBC could get a feed of the CBC's 24 news channel. Or are they too proud to do it, thinking they can do a better job?
If ITV had similar links to CTV, I'm sure they would've done it (if they hadn't disappeared to the ITV Nightly News, of course).
Btw - whereabouts is the live link to CTV on their website?
I just turned on News 24 to see the regular splitscreen, with Isabelle Lang standing in front of a truncated BBC Weather graphic in the left hand window. Looked a bit odd, not least because only "BBC WEAT" was visible.
On the other hand, good idea to get the meteorological perspective on it.
Reuters reporting City TV's claims that all 291 people escaped from the plane.
Both American and Canadian networks are covering this story quite well. The story about the CBC cameraman is false. I live in Canada and the CBC havn't shown anything.
He was recording. Doesn't neccessarily mean that it was shown live. Anyway, someone from CBC phoned Sky News.
Sure it's not the other way around? Why would someone from the CBC phone Sky? I think it's more likely that someone from Sky phoned the CBC!
Best coverage by far is on CNN. Its sister station CNN US is being presented by Miles O'Brien in NY and Wolf Blitzer in Atlanta. CNN International is breaking away occasionally showing CBC tv and City TV. Great coverage from the Canadian networks. Also great coverage on , believe it or not...EuroNews !! Showing a clean feed from CBC. (Damn, they just broke away !!) It looks that all passengers are safe and well, thank god.
Watched the incident unfold on CNNI before I had to leave my hotel for Singaopre Airport. BBC World not available in hotel. CNNI broke the story just at the end of World News Europe (Fionualla), with what was very clearly at that stage a very major incident. It was therefore bizarre that CNNI didn't continue with the live pictures, and instead opted to go to World Sport.
They of course came back to CNN Domestic around fifteen minutes later.
Kinda put me off wanting to go to the plane...........